![]() But he rose to the challenge admirably, going on to beat another great (Michael Schumacher) to the title in 1996.Īs for whether Damon Hill was ever the Stig, that’s a tricky one. As the team-mate to two of the greatest drivers ever to race in Formula One, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna, you would think that Hill would have his work cut out. ![]() His 1987 British F3 campaign yielded 5 th overall, 3 rd overall the following year, and then into Formula 3000 for the next 3 years. Starting off life racing motorcycles, he made the switch to cars in the mid-1980’s showing speed that could only be described as ‘sporadic’. Here’s Perry, failing to pre-qualify for the 1992 Monaco Grand Prix:ĭamon Hill’s early racing exploits gave little indication of to what would follow. Fancy a weekend at the Brazilian Grand Prix, click here: Perry McCarthy’s first Grand Prix race weekend was Brazil in 1992. McCarthy gets an extra half-point on his racing credentials for being formally entered in an F1 race meeting (rather than just testing). Andrea Moda never gave Perry the equipment (or time, preparation, organisation, interest, ad nauseum) he needed to set a sensible qualifying time, and consequently never even got through pre-qualifying for a race. ![]() With such hideously aligned priorities, team and driver never got very far. Perry signed with the Andrea Moda F1 Team a team that existed to advertise Italian shoes rather than to go motor-racing, and is roundly derided as the worst F1 Team ever. While he may have been a genuinely quick driver, funding was always difficult, and it didn’t get any easier once he made it to F1. There was no hiding against such illustrious company, and McCarthy held his own. In British F3 McCarthy raced against Damon Hill, Johnny Herbert, Mark Blundell, Julian Bailey and Martin Donnelly. Starting off life as a grease-monkey servicing oil-rigs to pay for his racing, Perry competed in Formula Ford, Formula 3, Formula 3000 (todays F2 equivalent), before making it to F1. Sartorial style aside, Perry McCarthy had quite a career. None of this AlpineStars stuff you see the playboys wearing. To those that grew up with the smell of Castrol R, you knew the original ‘black’ Stig was legit because he wore Stand 21 overalls. Perry McCarthyĪ driver that we knew was the Stig because he wrote a book about it ( Flat Out, Flat Broke: Formula 1 The Hard Way). Ever wondered, Who was the Stig? Then read on, because we have compiled a list of all those who have had an accusatory finger pointed in their direction…. Following on from our Who Is The Stig piece about Abbie Eaton from the Grand Tour, we thought it only sensible to look back at the chosen few to have donned those famously anonymous overalls.
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